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I am curious: was it the all Metal (Magnesium) Camera?

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To NormanN: David Windsor's 8x10 Kodak was a wooden bed camera.

Best wishes --- Allen Anway

In the 1960s I had a buddy who was the U of Chicago official photographer, the late David Windsor. He had a Kodak 8x10 view camera with rear tilts, but nothing in the front. He told me it took so...

Mr. Kashi states that one can remove the Seikosha shutter and put on a Copal shutter (for the 135mm inside lettering). I tried it and it doesn't work. The snout of the rear Fujinon section...

I think your best advantage would be to use the longer focal length lens and render the camera back more vertical than with your previous shorter focal length lens.

Best wishes --- Allen Anway

I got my first Canham 5x7 wood in 1999 and my second same in 2014. I am pleased with how it works. It easily accepts lenses from 72mm Super Angulon XL to 800mm Nikon T*ED. The 1200mm Nikon T*ED is...

i purchased a used 5x7 B&J Grover in the 1960s and used it for years. It had a red bellows. Your camera looks identical (except for ground glass size and black bellows). I suspect that someone...

I previously had a 135mm Rodenstock APO Sironar S @208mm diameter circle coverage that easily covered 5x7, proved by my many pictures. Will the 135mm Rodenstock APO Sironar N or the 135mm Nikkor W...

My Superangulon XL 72mm (I shoot 5x7) was designed to have slight retrofocus to make it more manageable for focusing in normal view cameras.
Best wishes --- Allen Anway

I have a 5x7 Canham Wood that I am fond of (2 each for 30 years). If I leave it in my car during winter, the wood, walnut, changes dimension from moisture, freezing the focusing action. So I keep...

My Super-Angulon-type lenses for 5x7 wide-angle photography are 72mm f/5.6 SAXL w/filter, 90mm f/5.6 SAXL w/filter, 115mm f/6.8 Rodenstock Grandagon, and plasmat 135mm f/5.6 Rodenstock Apo-Sironar-S....

In my scenic pictures, I often tilt the back vertical to render vertical lines parallel. Thus mostly I use both front and back tilts with my 5x7 Canham wood. If my lens has narrow field of view it...

I have both Super Angulons XLs 72mm and 90mm with their proper filters for my Canham 5x7. I claim that the filters are not that different from each other, and you will not see an improper negative...

Many modern lens-shutters also have a screw on the back near the retaining ring matching a hole in the lensboard to prevent rotation. Some people discard this screw, but I drill a hole in the...

I have two 5x7 Canham wood cameras 25 years apart. When I purchased bag bellows for the older, Mr. Canham wanted my assurance that I felt I knew what I was doing. I assured him that I did. They...

I have the complete set of the 600mm 800mm 1200mm for my 5x7 wood Canham view camera. The 600mm and 800mm work fine for bellows extension, but the 1200mm is too long. I made a cumbersome top hat...

I have a 5x7 wood Canham, with Canham's lens boards which will go in both rightside and upside down. With my smaller diameter lenses, I have deliberately placed the holes off-center to benefit me on...

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I purchased my 180mm Symmar Convertible in 1972 new. Same Copal #1 but with linear scales compared with your lens. I am unaware of Copal #0 for this, but I also am not knowledgeable.

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I have used K B Canham screen protectors for 20+ years for my 5x7. They are acrylic plastic bent in a U shape, protecting inside and out.

Best wishes --- Allen

I believe that the exposure is x4 for 1:1 ratio subject size to image size (inverse square law).

Best wishes --- Allen

A gun tap is also called a spiral point tap. It is not intended to adjust itself more perpendicular to the object than an ordinary tap. The advantage of the spiral point is to push out the cut...

I have both Super Angulons XL 72mm and XL 90mm with center filters for my Canham wood 5x7 camera, both lenses recommended by Mr. Canham. Watch your feet with the XL 72mm! I have slight movements...

Thanks for your testimonial. I have two Canham wood 5x7s and I am very satisfied. Furthermore Mr. Canham has answered any questions I have had.

Best wishes --- Allen Anway

A trouble with wide angle lenses taking pictures of people: If the people are toward the corners of the picture their image is elongated toward the center of the film. As an example, a sphere at a...

I have spent my life in 5x7 photography but have an opinion about what 4x5 to get. After years of Burke&James 5x7 Grover monorail, I got tired of it and for the first time in my life I examined...

I use the 72mm Super Angulon XL on 5x7 and it works very well. Watch your foot position! I also use the correct center filters for both my 90mm and 72mm Super Angulon XL, and they work very well...

I prefer to just write out the sequence
Best wishes --- Allen

1/2 stops calculate by factor 2^(1/4)
1/3 stops calculate by factor 2^(1/6)

1/2 stops: f/1 f/1.2 f/1.4 ...

I dropped my Pentax Digital without case on a concrete sidewalk from 4 feet high. No damage. My buddy dropped his analogue spot meter on my kitchen floor from 2 feet high. All the works came out....

I got my eye doctor to give me my eyeglass prescriptions with +5 diopters each eye. This works well for the ground glass, but walking around is a problem with such blurry far vision.

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For myself, my most helpful tip is to fire the shutter as practice before I pull the darkslide. When I do this I save myself a bunch of errors.

Best wishes --- Allen

It sounds like a problem with converging horizontal lines not matching in the photographs

It could be convenient (but not necessary) to keep the back vertical.

Could you shift the front/back of...

Thanks for your ideas. It is a tough problem. Best wishes --- Allen

Thanks for your contribution, ROL, you made my day :cool: Best wishes --- Allen

I have looked inside and not seen shiny hardware. Interior parts of camera are flat-black painted wood. Best wishes --- Allen

I use two different nested boxes for transport, film within cardboards, external corrugated cardboard box. If light hole, I would expect edge fogging. Thanks, Jason, for your question. Best wishes...

Edited to add test results: I gave the new bellows on camera both extended and retracted a lightbulb test. It performed properly.

Thanks for your good idea, Bruce ... Best wishes --- Allen

Thanks to polyglot and redshift for your responses. I feel they are helpful.

-1- The picture I posted is full frame 5x7
-2- I have cut 8x10 for years without difficulty until now.
-3- 'optical...

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Attempting to answer...

-1- lightbulb test of bellows. I have already done that many times with the old bellows. Your point about the new bellows is well...

My technique after 40 years of loading 5x7 is to
-1- in the light, pull out the slide (black side) completely and replace it (white side) while looking at a specular reflection of a light against...

I had not thought of film before. I purchased 200 sheets 8x10, removed the cardboard boxes leaving the metalized paper, stored all in freezer protected by cardboard and tinfoil. Periodically I...

I have taken 5x7 Ektachromes since 1971, same with K B Canham 5x7 wooden view camera since 1999. Starting 8-12-2012 I got my first 'optical spot' on my film. Such spot looks like a pinhole image of...